Jose Felix Uriburu

Jose Felix Uriburu (20 July 1868-29 April 1932) was President of Argentina from 6 September 1930 to 19 February 1932, succeeding Hipolito Yrigoyen and preceding Agustin P. Justo. He was leader of the fascist Nationalist Liberation Alliance.

Biography
Jose Felix Uriburu was born in Salta, Argentina on 20 July 1868, the nephew of President Jose Evaristo Uriburu. He participated in the failed 1890 Revolution of the Park while serving as a military officer, and he later helped President Manuel Quintana suppress a radical revolution in 1905. Uriburu went on to serve as a military attache to the United Kingdom and German Empire during the leadup to World War I and became a division general in 1921, but he retired in 1926 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age. However, he became a leader of the nationalist clique in the military which supported the Catholic Church's corporatist ideology, and, in 1930, he launched a coup against President Hipolito Yrigoyen amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. He ended a half-century of peace and stability and allowed for the Church to meddle in Argentine politics with a distinctly fascist orientation. He employed a systematic use of torture against anarchists, communists, and radical supporters of Yrigoyen, and he remained in power until 1932, when he turned over power to Agustin P. Justo before dying of stomach cancer at the age of 63.